Hello! Has anybody seen this species of jellyfish before? I’ve been doing a sort of unintentional ecosphere experiment and these things just appeared. There’s probably a couple hundred of them resting on the sand. They seem to jump around randomly.
Jellyfish ID help
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Possibly Cladonema californicum - a hydromedusa rather than a true jellyfish.
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Thanks! I think you’re right. I live in Southern California so I guess that makes sense. I wonder how it got on my rocks.
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No value to you whatsoever but I caught a batch of free-swimming stage of some type of hydrozoa that I found interesting in chaeto/pod QT a while back:
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In my case, I had already moved chaeto to my DT and only found these when cleaning out QT tank a couple/few days later. That was 8 months ago and I never noticed any in my DT but who knows?
No idea on species, sorry
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